· Private foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $959k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $44,950 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $44,818 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $44,515 |
| TEACHERS COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | $39,791 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $39,000 |
| RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY | $37,761 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENT | $37,071 |
| UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC IN MONTREAL | $36,896 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 77% of grant dollars ($6.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($1.9M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 23% of all-years giving ($1.9M)
24 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
170 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 139 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $711k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +43%
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +4%
Northwestern University8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $108k
- JJJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICone grant, 2019 · $106k
- PMPROF MAHMOOD MAMDANI MAKERERE INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL RESEARCHone grant, 2017 · $80k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Education and Research
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
173 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 173 of the 496 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Windham Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Page & Otto Marx Jr Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- High Spirit Community Farm Inc: 54% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
- Catamount Film & Arts Company: 27% of income from government
- Vermont Council On the Arts Inc: 20% of income from government
- Sarasa Inc: 14% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Narrows Center for the Arts Inc: 5% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc: 5% of income from government
- White River Partnership Inc: 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Revelsinc: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Lighthouse Artcenter Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
- High Watch Recovery Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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